Thanksgiving Weekend Reminder
The Bayonne and Hoboken offices of the Hudson Reporter will be closed on Friday, November 28. They will reopen on Monday, December 1.
Board of Education moves election to November
The Bayonne Board of Education voted to move the city’s new school board elections from April to November through a vote at the body’s meeting on Nov. 20, according to School Board President William Lawson.
The city voted to switch from a board appointed by the mayor to one elected by the voters in the recent general election.
Board members cited the cost of a springtime election, estimated to be as much as $200,000.
The school board vote was originally scheduled for April, but is now pushed back to November of next year.
“It just makes more sense to do it then, to save money,” Lawson said. “That’s an unbudgeted cost that would be in this current contract. It doesn’t make sense to take it (money) away from students and teachers.”
Save the dates: Theater troupe to perform ‘Virginia’ Dec. 11-13
The Theatre Group at All Saints Catholic Academy will perform Yes, Virginia, a play about the holidays and believing, at The Theater at St. Andrew’s the Apostle School, 4th Street and Broadway, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Dec. 11, 12 and 13 at 7 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 14 at 2 p.m.
A famous line from the play is: “The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see … Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.”
For more information, email ascatheatre@gmail.com.
Former Bayonne teacher to exhibit artwork
Charlann Meluso, a recently retired Bayonne high school teacher, will exhibit her artwork starting Sunday, Dec. 7 from 1 to 4 p.m. when the opening reception of her first solo exhibition is held in the Watchung Arts Center’s lower gallery, 18 Stirling Rd.
Her exhibit will feature a diverse assortment of her photo art and photography pieces. It will run until Dec. 20.
Meluso taught art and computer graphics in the Bayonne School District for 39 years. Since her retirement, she has immersed herself in her artwork and has been exhibiting in many venues in New Jersey.
Refreshments will be served at the opening reception.
Nature walk to be held at Meadowlands
The First-Sunday-of-the-Month Nature Walk with the New Jersey Meadowlands Commission and Bergen County Audubon Society will be held on Sunday, Dec. 7, at 10 a.m.
This free two-hour guided nature walk starts just outside DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst.
“Back by popular demand, we will walk along the base of the remediated Kingsland Landfill, looking for wintering waterfowl and other birds of interest,” said spokesman Brian Aberback.
Participants must sign a standard liability release that is good for NJMC/BCAS events throughout the year.
To rsvp, call (201) 230-4983. Check meadowblog.net for last-minute weather updates.